40th IATUR Conference

24-26 October 2018, Budapest

40th IATUR Conference

24-26 October 2018, Budapest

Welcome to IATUR

The International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR vzw) facilitates exchange of ideas, methodology, and data collection techniques among researchers and compilers of official statistics regarding daily activity patterns and changes in people's behaviour over time.

Registration is now open

Registration for the 41st International Association for Time Use Research Conference is now open. Click here to register.

41st IATUR Conference: Call for papers

The International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) is pleased to announce the 41st IATUR conference at the American University in Washington DC, USA. The main conference takes place from 10-12 July 2019 and will be hosted by the School of Public Affairs of the American University together with the Population Research Center of the University of Maryland. A tour sets of at 10 July to see the monuments at night and at 13 July to Mount Vernon.

Communicating Time Use Research to the Public

This year's theme is Communicating Time Use Research to the Public. Even the highest quality academic research often sits behind journal paywalls and impenetrable professional jargon. This is a shame, particularly when it comes to interdisciplinary time-use research, which has the potential to inform policy debates, public perceptions, and professions, sectors, and academic disciplines outside the mainstream time-use community. The 2019 IATUR conference theme is about conducting and communicating research to policy makers and the broader public.This year's IATUR conferences invites abstracts for papers that deal with any aspect of time-use research, including but not limited to:

Presentations of 40th IATUR conference available for download

All presentations of the 40th IATUR conference that were handed over to the conference organisors are now available for download. Please visit the conference session page and click on the session title to view and download the slides in PDF.

New online first articles JTUR

New logo

At the general assembly of the 40thIATUR conference all members voted in favour of a new logo for IATUR. The logo signifies time and rhythm, continuity and change, and harmony and contrast, all of which are at the core of time-use research with which the IATUR research community engages. Gradually the IATUR website and all other references to IATUR will adopt the new logo and new colour scheme.

Journal of Time Use Research

Behind the scenes a number of dedicated people have been working hard to make a restart of the electronic International Journal for Time Use Research (eIJTUR). This restart involved a name change to Journal of Time Use Research (JTUR) and a reformulation of the journal’s aim and scope. JTUR is a double-blind refereed journal, it is published by IATUR vzw and has open access policy. New publications will appear online immediately. Publications from the previous eIJTUR journal are freely available in the archive JTUR. An online submission system will be available soon, but manuscripts can be submitted already by emailing to editor@iatur.net. Submission guidelines can be found on the website. Currently, JTUR is looking for people to join the editorial board. If interested, please contact us at editor@iatur.net.

Interactive visualisation of time-use

In anticipation of the 40thIATUR conference the Hungarian Statistical Office joined hands with EUROSTAT to create an interactive visualisation of time-use. Compare any two of the 17 countries included and see how people allocate their time over a number of categories during the day. The visualisation is available through this link.

IATUR membership

IATUR offers a reduced membership and conference fee for students, people who have retired from employment, and people based in a low income economies. To see the criteria for eligibility for these reductions, select this option in your Profile under the Billing tab. If you meet these criteria, please upload evidence of your eligibility. You will be notified by e-mail if your request for this reduction is approved. This reduction only applies after you receive this confirmation e-mail. Please do not pay for your membership and/or conference fee before you have received this e-mail. We normally take up to 3 working days to process requests. In August, requests may take longer to process.